10th International Young
Geomorphologists Meeting
Werbellinsee, 27.-29.05.2016
Report of the 10th International Young Geomorphologists’ Workshop,
Werbellinsee, May 27-29, 2016
The 10th International Young Geomorphologists’ Workshop, organized by the German Young
Geomorphologists (YG) was held from May 27-29, 2015 at the Werbellinsee, northeast of Berlin. It
was the third time after 2014 that international participants were explicitly invited. In total, 45
undergraduate, graduate, PhD students, and postdocs from 17 different Institutions and Universities
(and 3 countries, including Poland, Austria and Germany) came together for a three-day workshop to
discuss their own research, as well as topics of geomorphologic interest in general, in a rather
informal environment.
The program for the three days included 7 oral work-in-progress reports as well as reports from
advanced PhD-projects which were organized in two sessions (see attached program for details):
Session I: “Sediment – Surface – Erosion” featuring talks by Moritz Nykamp (FU Berlin), Jörn Profe
(University of Bremen), Tobias Sprafke (University of Würzburg), Ugur Ötztürk
(University of Potsdam), and Jesús Rodrigo Comino (University of Trier).
Session II: “Transport – Interactions” featuring talks by Anna Schoch (University of Bonn), and
Bastian Dost (University of Trier).
In addition to the oral sessions, and as a result of the very successful poster sessions held in previous
years, there were two poster sessions held, with a total of 18 posters presented on a broad variety of
geomorphic topics.
After a casual introduction of the participants this year’s program started in the evening (19:30 21:30) with a Keynote lecture on “The Geophysics and Geochemistry of Geomorphology: why
surface processes matter in the big picture, and how we use scary tools to learn about them”,
presented by Prof. Niels Hovius (GFZ Potsdam). This was followed by a “Late-Night” poster session
with accompanying 30 seconds introductory talks from all presenters (see attached program for
further details). Even though it was already late at night, the poster session was a great success and
participants kept on discussing until midnight.
On Saturday the workshop started with a session on “Sediment – Surface – Erosion”, featuring 5 oral
talks by participants between 09:00 and 11:00, before the group left for a field-trip to the
surroundings of the Werbellinsee. The field trip was organized by Dr. Knut Kaiser (GFZ Potsdam),
who introduced the group to the postglacial landscape features of the region. Returning from the
field trip, the data acquisition for the workshop on on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) was
accomplished at the lake side, where we also took the opportunity of taking nice group pictures. In
the evening, the second poster session with accompanying 30 seconds introductory talks was held
(see attached program for further details). Here, we took advantage of the nice weather conditions
and held an outdoor poster session, which proved to be highly recommendable for future events.
On Sunday morning the second session on “Transport – Interactions” was held, featuring two oral
presentations. Following the oral block, Dr. Kristen Cook (GFZ Potsdam) gave a hands-on workshop
on UAV data processing and Structure from Motion analysis, using the data collected at the lake
shore on Saturday night.
Feedback round
During the past years it has become a tradition to close the meeting with a feedback round, during
which the participants are asked to give their general comments on the organization of the entire
meeting, as well as to grade the meeting according to different aspects (see pictures below). Overall,
the participants were very satisfied with the organization of the meeting. Constructive comments
and suggestions will help the YG team to improve the organisation of future activities. The
internationalisation of the meeting is received very positively and was felt to have increased the
quality of the meeting. Furthermore, the poster session (introduced two years ago) was mentioned
as a great success by several participants, though they wished to allow more time for the session.
Other suggestions involved to allow for more talks during the meeting, even though the emphasis
should be placed on the poster sessions. The workshop on UAVs and SfM by Dr. Kristen Cook from
the GFZ Potsdam was a great success and evaluated very positively. Many participants expressed
their wish to keep a workshop as part of the program for the next meetings. It will be up to the
elected team to incorporate these suggestions in the organization of the coming YG meeting in 2017.
As also has been discussed in the feedback rounds of previous years, the organization of a field trip
during the annual meetings is very limited in time. It was shortly discussed whether to prolong the
entire meeting, in order to allow for more time for a field trip, but most participants valued the
convenience of a weekend-meeting of only 2 ½ days.
General points
The two chairpersons and a support team of 7 young geomorphologists were elected in 2015: Jan
Blöthe (Uni Bonn) and Julia Meister (FU Berlin) will chair the YG for a two-year period until the 2017
meeting. They are supported by Christoph Kappler (GFZ Potsdam), Anna Schoch (Uni Bonn), Andrea
Junge (Uni Gießen), Phillip Schulte (RWTH Aachen), Veit Nottebaum (RWTH Aachen), Steffen Pötsch
(EMAU Greifswald), and Karoline Meßenzehl (Uni Bonn) in the upcoming tasks.
The next Young Geomorphologists’ Workshop is scheduled for May 2017 and will probably be held
near Munich (Ammersee), where in 2007 the first annual meeting of the YG was held.
The YG group expresses their thanks to the AK Geomorphologie for financial support of the annual
meeting. We also thank Christoph Kappler (GFZ Potsdam) for organising the venue and Anna Schoch
(Uni Bonn) for handling participant communication. Finally, we are grateful for the excellent
presentation of the keynote speaker Niels Hovius, the great excursion guided by Knut Kaiser, the
workshop held by Kristen Cook and the AK Geomorphologie and the sponsoring companies (see
attached) for their financial support of the event.
Kind regards
Julia Meister, Jan Blöthe, Christoph Kappler, Anna Schoch, Veit Nottebaum, Andrea Junge, Phillip
Schulte, Steffen Pötsch, and Karoline Meßenzehl
PROGRAM
Friday, 27/05/2016
16:00
Arrival
17:00
Get to know the program and the group
Let’s learn some names and share a drink
18:00
Dinner
19:30
Keynote: Prof. Niels Hovius (GFZ Potsdam): The Geophysics and Geochemistry of
Geomorphology: why surface processes matter in the big picture, and how we use scary tools to
learn about them.
21:00
Late night shorts (“30 second madness”) and poster session – Convener: Julia Meister
You have 30 SECONDS to present your topic on one slide. After the short introductions we’ll continue
discussing the posters with some cool drinks.
Fabian Becker (Berlin): Geomorphology of iron smelting on Elba Island, Tuscany.
Hannah Berger (Bonn): Quantifying an active landslide on the Swabian Alb.
Verena Czarnowsky (Leipzig): Characterization of perennial and episodic springs with stable
isotope signatures in the Kaunertal Valley, Austria.
Malgorzata Frydrych (Łódź): Extreme glacifluvial processes in record of Rzymsko esker sediments.
Chris Halla (Bonn): Morphology and internal structure of the Morenas Coloradas rock glacier
complex, Central Andes, Argentina.
Jacob Hardt (Berlin): The Frankfurt phase - Geomorphological and geochronological
investigations to reassess a "classical" ice marginal position in NE Germany.
Sarah Ißelhorst (Berlin): Traditional water management in a semi-arid environment, SE-Spain
Andrea Junge (Gießen): Pre-occupation – occupation – post-occupation: Dating sediments
associated with ancient settlement structures in Israel to reconstruct human activity.
Christoph Kappler (Potsdam): Evaluating the timing of Late Quaternary geomorphodynamics and
soil formation: a review of geochronological data from northeastern central Europe.
Mario Kirchhoff (Trier): Argan woodlands in South Morocco as an area of conflict between
degradation and sustainable land use.
Saturday, 28/05/2016
08:00
Breakfast
09:00
Session I: “Sediment – Surface – Erosion” Convener: Christoph Kappler
You have 20 minutes for your topic, so make your talk short and to the point and have plenty of time for
discussion!
09:00
Moritz Nykamp (Berlin): Quantification of wind-driven soil erosion of a loess-like sediment
and its implications on the occurrence of archaeological surface and sub-surface finds.
09:20
Jörn Profe (Bremen): Insights into paleoclimate and sediment dynamics: Element log ratios
derived from X-Ray fluorescence scanning of discrete samples from the loess-paleosol
sequence Schwalbenberg II, Germany.
09:40
10:00
Tobias Sprafke (Würzburg): Morphodynamic activity and stability in polygenetic loess
paleosols.
Break
10:20
Ugur Öztürk (Potsdam): Predicting Rainfall-Induced Landslides Applying Complex Networks
Based on Event Synchronization.
10:40
Jesús Rodrigo Comino (Trier): Actual geomorphological processes on steep hillslope
vineyards. A comparison of Ruwertal (Germany) with the Montes de Málaga (Spain).
11:00
Leisure time and lunch
14:00
Field trip to the surroundings (Dr. Knut Kaiser, GFZ Potsdam)
18:00
Return from field trip
19:00
Dinner
20:00
Late night shorts (“30 second madness”) and poster session – Convener: Anna Schoch
You have 30 SECONDS to present your topic on one slide. After the short introductions we’ll continue
discussing the posters with some cool drinks.
Lisa Luna (Potsdam): Multi-isotope comparison of 3He, 21Ne, and 36Cl moraine ages from the
high-altitude central Puna Plateau, NW Argentina.
Eric Pohl (Freiberg): Identifying climate forcing on suspended sediment transport in the high
Pamir Mountains.
Anne Schuchhardt (Halle): The effects of large wood on longitudinal sediment connectivity – first
results from small Central European mountain streams.
Raphael Steup (Gießen): The loess sequence at Münzenberg (Wetterau/Germany): A
reinterpretation based on new luminescence dating results.
Stefanie Tofelde (Potsdam): Eccentricity-driven fluvial fill terrace formation in the southerncentral Andes, NW Argentina.
Renee van Dongen (Potsdam): Testing biotic controls on erosion and sediment transport in the
Chilean coastal cordillera with cosmogenic 10Be-derived erosion rates.
Georg Veh (Potsdam): Towards an improved inventory of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in the
Himalayas.
Tilmann Wolpert (Gießen): Fine grain OSL-dating of specific marker horizons of the Nussloch loess
section Heidelberg/Germany.
21:30
Party / Get together
Sunday, 29/05/2016
08:00
Breakfast
09:30
Session II: “Transport – Interactions” Convener: Steffen Pötsch
You have 20 minutes for your topic, so make your talk short and to the point to have plenty of time for
discussion!
09:30
Anna Schoch (Bonn): Postglacial sediment evacuation from the tributaries of the Upper
Rhone, Switzerland.
09:50
Bastian Dost (Trier): Smartstones - Technique and Applications.
10:10
Coffee Break
10:30
Workshop UAVs by Dr. Kristen Cook (GFZ Potsdam)
In a short hands-on workshop, Kristen will show you how easy and straightforward it can be to
generate a 3D model from just a bunch of pictures collected with an unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV). You can bring your laptop and install Agisoft Photoscan professional on it. You can get a
free 30 day trial of Agisoft at http://www.agisoft.com/downloads/request-trial/.
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Give us what we deserve!
We need your opinion on what you liked and disliked!
14:00
Goodbye and some final remarks
List of Participants:
Nr
Surname
Name
Institution
E-mail
1
Anselm
Norbert
FU Berlin
[email protected]
2
Banzer
Lorenz
University of Bonn
[email protected]
3
Becker
Fabian
FU Berlin
[email protected]
4
Berger
Hannah
University of Bonn
[email protected]
5
Blöthe
Jan
University of Bonn
[email protected]
6
Cook
Kristen
GFZ Potsdam
[email protected]
7
Czarnowsky
Verena
University of Leipzig
[email protected]
8
Dost
Bastian
University of Trier
[email protected]
9
Eibisch
Katharina
University of Bonn
[email protected]
10
Faust
Matthias
MLU Halle-Wittenberg
[email protected]
11
Frydrych
Malgorzata
University of Łódź
[email protected]
12
Halla
Chris
University of Bonn
[email protected]
13
Hardt
Jacob
FU Berlin
[email protected]
14
Herrmann
Nico
University of Hildesheim
[email protected]
15
Isigkeit
Julius
University of Bonn
[email protected]
16
Ißelhorst
Sarah
FU Berlin
[email protected]
17
Junge
Andrea
University of Gießen
[email protected]
18
Kappler
Christoph
GFZ Potsdam
[email protected]
19
Kiep
Janika
FU Berlin
[email protected]
20
Kirchhoff
Mario
University of Trier
[email protected]
21
Knitter
Daniel
FU Berlin
[email protected]
22
Knoll
Sebastian
TU München
[email protected]
23
Kraushaar
Sabine
University of Vienna
[email protected]
24
Luna
Lisa
University of Potsdam
[email protected]
25
Meister
Julia
FU Berlin
[email protected]
26
Meyer-Heintze
Simon
University of Würzburg
[email protected]
27
Morche
David
MLU Halle-Wittenberg
[email protected]
28
Mosser
Sarah
FU Berlin
[email protected]
29
Nykamp
Moritz
FU Berlin
[email protected]
30
Öztürk
Ugur
University of Potsdam
[email protected]
31
Pohl
Eric
TU Freiberg
[email protected]
32
Pötsch
Steffen
University of Greifswald
[email protected]
33
Profe
Jörn
University of Bremen
[email protected]
34
Rodrigo Comino
Jesús
University of Trier
[email protected]
35
Schoch
Anna
University of Bonn
[email protected]
36
Schuchardt
Anne
MLU Halle-Wittenberg
[email protected]
37
Sprafke
Tobias
University of Würzburg
[email protected]
38
Stadtmann
Robin
University of Hildesheim
[email protected]
39
Steup
Raphael
JLU Gießen
[email protected]
40
Thelen
Florian
MLU Halle-Wittenberg
[email protected]
41
Tofelde
Stefanie
GFZ / University of Potsdam
[email protected]
42
van Dongen
Renee
GFZ Potsdam
[email protected]
43
Veh
Georg
University of Potsdam
[email protected]
44
Wolpert
Tilmann
JLU Gießen
[email protected]
45
Zubairov
Bulat
HU Berlin
[email protected]
Sponsors
www.ak-geomorphologie.de
Annual participation fee: 25.00 Euro